Consciousness Talks

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debate by philosophers, theologians, and all of science. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one's "inner life", the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not. The disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.

Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one's sense of selfhood or soul explored by "looking within"; being a metaphorical "stream" of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain.

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Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. III-2

Serial: SR-00037

Third Lotus Sutra Series
Thursday Evening, October 23, 1969
Zen Mountain Center

[The recording starts with Suzuki reading from: Saddharma Pundarika or The...

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, First Principle, Don't Know Mind, Consciousness,...
Oct 23 1969
Series 3, Talk 2
Tassajara

Twelve Links of Causation

Serial: SR-00135

Twelve Links Of Causation
Juni-innen (Jap.)
Dvada-aiga-pratatyasamutpada (San.)

English Japanese Sanskrit...

Consciousness, Suffering, causation, Discrimination, Emptiness, Fasting, Passions,...
Aug 23 1969
Tassajara

June 10th, 1969, Serial No. 00015

Consciousness, Big Mind, Obstacles, Emotions, New Year, Samadhi, Suffering, Ego, Hate...
Jun 10 1969

February 25th, 1969, Serial No. 00009

Attachment, causation, realization, Consciousness, Breath, Happiness, Community,...
Feb 25 1969

February 18th, 1969, Serial No. 00008

causation, Suffering, Buddha Mind, Birth-and-Death, difficulty, Buddha Nature,...
Feb 18 1969

February 1969 talk, Serial No. 00006

Discrimination, realization, Anger, training, Suffering, Consciousness, Pain...
Feb 1969

Lotus Sutra, Lecture No. II-15

Serial: SR-00006

Fall, 1968
Zen Mountain Center

Lotus Sutra, First Principle, Conversation, Meditation, Demons, American, First...
Oct 1968
Series 2, Talk 15
Tassajara

OLD - In the first instruction of ten instructions in Gakudō-yōjin-shū

Serial: SR-00089

Reel was wrongly dated - transcript matches 66-12-17-A
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Discussion of fascicle Shobogeno Gakudo Yojinshu. Way-seeking mind and responding to encountering the...

Sesshin, Dogen, Shobogenzo, Sixth Patriarch, training, Birth-and-Death, Instruction,...
Dec 17 1966
A
Sokoji

OLD - The Second Paragraph of the Genjo Koan

Serial: SR-00196

Monday, August 15, 1966
Sesshin Lecture, Lecture A
Sokoji, San Francisco

Sesshin, Genjokoan, Dogen, Consciousness, Attachment, Instruction, Doubt, reality,...
Aug 15 1966
A
Sokoji

Unknown Date, Serial 00367

Intuition, Impermanence, Intention, Passions, Compassion, Consciousness, American,...
[field_wisdom_date]

Unknown Date, Serial 00370

Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Emotions, Attachment, Constancy, Demons,...
[field_wisdom_date]

Unknown Date, Serial 00376

Consciousness, Suffering, Impermanence, Ego, Letting Go, confusion, Right Speech,...
[field_wisdom_date]

Unknown Date, Serial 00388

Buddha Nature, Transmission, Consciousness, Letting Go, Attachment, Echo, Emotions,...
[field_wisdom_date]

Unknown Date, Serial 00389

Suffering, Anger, Attachment, Consciousness, Balance, Liberation, Building,...
[field_wisdom_date]

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275-A

Alan Watts on Taoism, session 1

Forms, Silence, Echo, Obstacles, Describe, Lay, Bell, Continuous, Consciousness,...
[field_wisdom_date]
A
Unknown

Seminar on Taoism

Serial: SR-00275-B

Alan Watts talk - session 2

Consciousness, Pain, heart, Forms, Hate, zen, Zoom, Obstacles, Ego, Lay
[field_wisdom_date]
B
Unknown

Unknown year, June talk, Serial 00373

Continuous, Intention, Consciousness, Impermanence, Intuition, Right Speech, Buddha...
Jun 04

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